Category: English 10

English 10 Core Competency Self-Assessment

SameeraLeave a comment

Creative Thinking

My Poetry Collection

The final unit project for the Poetry Unit in our class was to create a Poetry Collection. This collection required three themes, each with 5 poems each. Within each theme, two poems were written by a different writer, while three poems were original poems. Additionally, an original sonnet, haiku and cinquain were added to the collection. 

I demonstrated creative thinking in this project through the writing of my original poems. When writing a poem, I first considered the theme that it was going to be part of. For example, one of my themes was “Hope”. I thought about what a person who was feeling hope might experience, and what they may be thinking of. I also used metaphors and symbols that represent hope in my poems. 

Additionally, I took inspiration from other poets. I read “Milk and Honey” by Rupi Kaur and admired the way that she created mood in her poems. When writing poems in my “Grief” section, I used shorter, halting lines in a similar style to Rupi Kaur to create a feeling of emptiness and loss.  

English 10 Core Competency Self- Assessment

SameeraLeave a comment

Communication through Character Exercise

My Artifact: Character Study Poster

I demonstrated my communication skills by effectively working with my partner to divide our project evenly between us, consulting my partner when I needed advice or assistance, and setting goals with my partner so that our project could be completed well.

At the beginning of the project, my partner and I read the criteria together, then separated the project evenly based on the criteria listed. Once we completed the written part of the project, we shared my pencil crayons and split the poster into manageable parts for coloring so that we would both do an equal amount of coloring.

Next, when doing the written part of the project my partner and I would occasionally run into a section of the criteria that we didn’t fully understand. When this happened, we would first talk it through to see if we could sort it out, and if we still couldn’t understand we would ask the teacher for help together.

Lastly, my partner and I consistently set goals to help our project progress. Every day we would agree on a part of the project that we wanted to complete by the end of class, and if we weren’t able to finish it we would finish the work at home. This strategy helped to keep us on track, and it even helped us finish and hand in our project early.